Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench and some age toning (darkening)

and some age toning (darkening) to the paper I'm sure

And on the top of the box lid is the "Celluloid" trade mark

visualizing a whole collection arranged across a few shelves

I can't even imagine how one had the patience to make this one

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes antique doll bench and some age toning (darkening)Quite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate